Contrabass Digest

2001-06-12

I hope someone out there can give me some advice.
My husband and I havemany boxes of music that belonged to his grandfather
when he directed asmall community band for something like fifty years.
we are looking for anorganization we can donate the music to. Any suggestions?
We are planningto move in the near future and don't want to throw the
music away.

There are probably about a zillion bands that would gladly
take the music off your hands (I can think of several close to home) and
give you a tax deduction to boot. Why not drop a line to Ron Boerger,
rboerger@io.com, the moderator
of the Community-Music list and see if he has any suggestions on how to
best handle your bonanaza?

Best regards,Chuck Guzis

On 6/11/2001, Jean Adler wrote:>I hope someone out there can give me some advice.
My husband and I have>many boxes of music that belonged to his grandfather
when he directed a>small community band for something like fifty years.
we are looking for an>organization we can donate the music to. Any suggestions?
We are planning>to move in the near future and don't want to throw the
music away.>>Thanks,>Jean Adler

How is the piccolo heckelphone
tuned? Does it have any features that aredifferent from an oboe? Also, i'm looking for info on
the Musette. Some oboemakers offer one, which usually appears to be identical
to the oboe exceptfor being smaller in size. Please respond if you know
more about them andwhat they are used for.

I am the band director at a Christian School in decatur,
Illinois. We haveno music budget. My fellow band directors from
the public schools have beennice enough to lend me music for the last three years.
I would be veryinterested in any music of any kind you might have.
we could give you areceipt for tax purposes if you wish to make a donation.

<< How is the piccolo heckelphone tuned? Does it
have any features that aredifferent from an oboe? Also, i'm looking for info on
the Musette. Some oboemakers offer one, which usually appears to be identical
to the oboe exceptfor being smaller in size. Please respond if you know
more about them andwhat they are used for. >>

The piccolo Heckelphone is pitched in F, an octave above
the English Horn.It is pretty much a tiny Heckelphone rather than a tiny
oboe, although Ithink it only descends to written B rather than the A
on most bassHeckelphones. The idea behind it's concept was
to make a sopranino voicedreed instrument that was capable of cutting through the
large, late romanticorchestras. The musette, also pitched in F or sometimes
in Eb , does nothave the volume that the piccolo Heckelphone has.
The modern musette isesentially the same as an oboe, only higher pitched.
Originally it was alittle different, more like a bagpipe chanter.

Thanks to all of you for the advice and suggestions for
donating music.Now, I will need to decide how to go about getting this
all out.I will be away for a few days and will contact those
of you who areinterested in the near future.Thanks again.

>How is the piccolo heckelphone tuned? Does it have any
features that>are different from an oboe? Also, i'm looking for info
on the>Musette. Some oboe makers offer one, which usually appears
to be>identical to the oboe except for being smaller in size.
Please>respond if you know more about them and what they are
used for.>> MATS ÖLJARE

I don't know of anyone who's actually played one, but
they're supposed to be higher and louder than oboes, with a more shawm-like
timbre. The keywork may differ quite a bit: many heckelphones
(bass) were made with German system keywork rather than the Conservatoire
that is essentially standard for oboes. The last piccolo heckelphone
was made around 1916: what system was prevalent then? Probably one
of the decisions Heckel will need to
make first is what sort of keywork to offer on the new heckelphones.
I suspect that the original models were all "simple system", and that many
people interested in them now will be expecting Conservatoire.